Ai Zhuo looked at the six or seven corpses on the ground and smiled bitterly at everyone: "Jie Shuai, we are really very restrained. We really only kill people who are extremely angry with the people. But the problem is that there are no good people in Suizhou City.
Almost all of these gentry who were captured and put on public trial had some kind of blood feud, and the people were very angry. If we don't kill people, the people themselves will tear these people alive after the public trial is over."
"If we don't kill people, we will lose the reputation. How can the people of Suizhou be willing to believe that the invading army will suppress the troops and pacify the people, and equalize the land without giving them taxes?"
Aizhuo's rebuttal was so well-founded that Li Laiheng didn't know what to say.
Fang Yiren, who was on the side, had a stern look on his face. He was still holding the platinum fracture fan from Prince Fu's Palace given by Li Laiheng. He asked with a hesitant expression: "You also have to distinguish clearly whether you are a traitor or a good citizen. Don't let others go."
The traitorous people took this opportunity to seek revenge and cause trouble."
After all, Fang Yiren was born in the Fang family in Tongcheng, and could be regarded as a child of a famous family. Although the squires in Suizhou did not like him, when he saw the six or seven corpses on the ground, there was still a chill in his bones and a chill down his spine.
Li Laiheng also nodded and told Aizhuo to carefully distinguish the good from the bad, and not to be taken advantage of by local sticks and green skins, which would damage the political resources of the Chuang Army.
"This... this is definitely not a false accusation."
Aizhuo had a wry smile on his face. He had no intention of deliberately going against Li Laiheng's policies. Rather, it was the local squires who had indeed accumulated blood debts that were difficult to repay.
"In the past few years, there have been droughts and floods in the northern and eastern parts of Han Dynasty. The locusts are constantly coming, and the people have no harvest. Although the situation is not as severe as that in Henan, it is not uncommon for people to starve to death. The local squires took advantage of the disaster.
, they went around forcibly confiscating the property of ordinary people, and also deliberately issued debts to the King of Hell with extremely high interest rates, and I don’t know how many people were forced to death!”
"That's not all. Some time ago, Zhang Xianzhong moved to Anhui, and the commander Ding Qirui followed him and passed by Suizhou with a large group of proud soldiers. The army was arbitrarily recruiting civilians everywhere in Suizhou, and forcibly distributed bunches of rice, wheat, beans, and steel-feathered arrows.
Suo, those who have official status or gentry with background and backing, pass it on layer by layer, allocating Ding Qirui's share to the local people, and in the name of preventing sacrifices, they learn from the method of Gao Mingheng, the patrol officer in Henan.
, forcing the people of Suizhou to pay various social fees."
"This kind of transfer and apportionment has made the people unbearable and the common people hate it. It has penetrated into the bones of their bones and has been carried out fiercely. It is not surprising that the public was so angry at the public trial today! After all, the six or seven dead people on the ground were...
More than six or seven hundred people were forced to death?"
Li Laiheng originally thought that compared with Henan, Huguang's climate and soil were more suitable for food production, and there were fewer disasters. The situation should be much more optimistic than that of Henan.
At this moment, after listening to what Aizhuo said, he realized that Huguang's economic production was also in such a state of decay.
Although it is said that "when Huguang is ripe, the world is rich", the intermittent droughts and floods in recent years have placed an extremely heavy burden on the people of Huguang.
Ding Qirui, as the commander of the aid and suppression division, was the governor of the military affairs of several provinces, but he did not dare to go to Henan to fight Li Zicheng, so he hid in Huguang in the name of chasing Zhang Xianzhong. The arrogant and capable generals under his supervision were not inferior in military discipline.
In Zuozhen, everything was completely deserted.
The conflict between the gentry and the people has reached this point!
Even if Li Laiheng wanted to moderate the Chuang Army's policy towards the gentry, he really couldn't say anything in the face of the current situation.
This is really not how he wants to persecute the village sages, but these village sages themselves seek death. Apart from death and sticks, what other methods can make people like them sober?
"well!"
Fang Yiren gently shook the folding fan and sighed. Looking at Li Laiheng's expression, he knew that the master of the palace had made up his mind. It would be useless to say more, so he had no choice but to say: "The master of the palace should kill the corrupt officials who should be killed. But Chuang Jun
Those who have not established a stable foothold in Huguang, are not familiar with people, and unless the public's anger is so great that it is necessary to kill them, it is better to focus on arrest and release."
Li Laiheng understood what Fang Yiren meant. He waved his hand to Ai Zhuo and comforted him, saying: "You are absolutely right! I don't understand clearly. I don't know that these people are sitting on the pile of firewood when the people are in anger.
And you have the guts to play with fire and enrich yourself... ugh!"
Aizhuo nodded, and explained to Fang Yiren: "Mr. Leshan, we can only kill six or seven people, and we always kill them with one knife. But you know these gentry and country people, they catch people who can't pay the rent.
How did you do it?"
"They have a kind of punishment called "sweeping the poor devil's hair", which involves stripping a person's clothes, dousing them with boiling water, scalding the whole body with blisters, and then using a bamboo broom to sweep away the skin. Compared with their methods, we gave him one blow after the public trial.
Isn't it kind enough to be happy?"
What Aizhuo said about "sweeping away the poor people's hair" made the hairs on Li Laiheng's body stand up. He just imagined the scene of using a broom to sweep away all the blisters and human skin, and he felt chilled in his heart.
When the words came to this point, Fang Yiren had no choice but to shut up completely. The people watching the play in the school grounds cheered and jumped, and some people who had a blood feud with the slain squire rushed directly to the high platform.
Then, the six or seven corpses were directly torn into pieces.
The bloody scene in front of me was even more horrifying than the battlefield.
It is a contradiction between ourselves and the enemy. This is really a contradiction between us and the enemy. Li Laiheng thought to himself.
Bai Wang was not moved by the scene of the common people dismembering the gentry. While he praised the public trial held by Suizhou Chuangjun, it was indeed more effective than Li Zicheng's previous simple and rough torture. He also asked Li Laiheng carefully.
Specific measures on how to resettle the old camp.
Since PepsiCo was also starting up in Suizhou, Li Laiheng and Fang Yiren discussed it on the spot, then pulled out a piece of paper and wrote a few letters to Bai Wang on the spot.
"We have arrested or killed more than a hundred gentry families and cleared away the houses. The confiscated houses can probably house a thousand people. The barracks of the Chu army can also be used by the old camp for a period of time. I have given the remaining houses to Miao Li
Chen went to supervise the construction, so now I have to keep everything simple."
"Well...then," Li Laiheng handed a written letter to Bai Jiuhe and said, "It's a pity that Uncle Qing didn't come to Suizhou. The food, wages and equipment had to be handed over to Master He first. I have asked him before.
Xiao Weisong changed a carriage and horse shop in Suizhou City into Baigong Yamen. If Master He has something to do, he will go to Baigong Yamen to hand over to Xiao Weisong."
Baijiuhe's mustache twitched and asked curiously: "What is this Baigong Yamen?"
Fang Yiren helped Li Laiheng explain: "The Baigong Yamen is the dian of food and wages. The specific departments below dian of military supplies are sent and received by a skilled worker who specializes in this industry. Each department stores its own materials, each uses its own tools, and each has its own skills.
Each has his own place, and each performs his duties.
Whatever the army needs, we can do it immediately."
Baigongya is actually a temporary logistics organization established by Li Laiheng. It is considered a transitional thing. After the situation in Huguang is completely stabilized, he will further formalize it.
The current Baigong Yamen can only be said to be a bunch of handicraftsmen gathered together to produce various military supplies. There is no trace of organized or large-scale production. There is nothing more advanced.
, for the time being, only the leaders of each department are all held by skilled workers in this industry, which is worth mentioning.
This is Li Laiheng's General Logistics Department plus the General Equipment Department.
Of course, the official name was still based on Li Laiheng's retro hobby, and the rustic official name such as Dian Liang, Dian Equipment, etc. was changed to Zhi Du Shi.
The branch envoy appointed by Bai Jiuhe is also in charge of food and salary distribution and equipment production, and Baigong Yamen is also within the scope of his management. Specifically, the scope of the branch envoy's jurisdiction includes three types: Yamen, courtyards, and treasury: Yamen is Baigong Yamen,
Mainly focusing on the production of civilian needs; the courtyard is a larger military production department such as the Ordnance Academy and the Military Academy; the warehouse is the bow and arrow warehouse, armor warehouse, granary and other logistics material management departments.
It's a pity that Uncle Qing was left in Henan, otherwise Li Laiheng would definitely have asked Li Changqing to be the branch envoy, and then separate the food and salary supply and material production, and separate the material production into a separate position for Bai Jiuhe.
When formalization is strengthened in the future, it will be better if all of these are brought under purely civilian agencies such as the Ministry of Industry.
"As for Lao Bai, this letter is for you."
Li Laiheng handed another freshly written note to Bai Wang, with the words "Huguang Camp Field Envoy" written on it. Bai Wang was confused and frowned and asked, "Jie Commander is planning to let me camp in Suizhou."
?"
Although Bai Wang didn't read much, he still had some basic cultural level. From the word "camping envoy", he speculated that his job should still be responsible for recruiting refugees, plowing fields and clearing wasteland.
But Li Laiheng shook his head. His face was heavier and more serious than before, and he lowered his voice and said: "What the field envoy has to do is to thoroughly implement our slogan of equalizing land without taxation."
"Equal land without endowment!?"
Bai Wang was shocked. It was very common to exempt people from paying taxes. In fact, wherever the army went, they were already implementing the policy of exempting people from paying taxes for three years.
However, because the main force of the Chuang army adopted the strategy of flowing without soil, in fact it was difficult to implement the tax exemption policy. The tax exemption only lasted for a short period of time when the Chuang army was stationed there.
Not to mention the equalization of fields. The Chuang Army did not have the yellow book data passed down from generation to generation in the Ming Dynasty and accumulated hundreds of years, nor did it have the help of a large number of subordinate officials. In fact, the slogan of equalizing fields could not be implemented at all.